Quick Reads
Heads of the Colored People by Call Number: PS3620.H6885 A6 2018ISBN: 9781501167997Publication Date: 2018-04-10
The Memory Librarian by Call Number: POPULAR PS3613.O52266 M46 2022ISBN: 9780063070875Publication Date: 2022-04-19
Recitatif by Call Number: POPULAR PS3563.O8749 R43 2022ISBN: 9780593315033Publication Date: 2022-02-01
Bite-sized Romances!
Finding Joy by Call Number: POPULAR PS3608.E773 F56 2020ISBN: 9798654288530Publication Date: 2020-06-15
Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Call Number: POPULAR PS3603.O427 O53 2019ISBN: 9780062931870Publication Date: 2019-02-19
Sweet Tea by Call Number: POPULAR PS3608.U383 S94 2021ISBN: 9781952210204Publication Date: 2021-07-13
Far Sector by Call Number: POPULAR PN6728.F349 J46 2021ISBN: 9781779512055Publication Date: 2021-10-19
Icon - A Hero's Welcome by Call Number: PN6727.M28 I36 2009ISBN: 9781401225490Publication Date: 2009-10-06
Iyanu: Child of Wonder Volume 1 by Call Number: POPULAR LZ PZ7.7.O424 I93 202ISBN: 9781506723044Publication Date: 2021-09-21
Static Shock - Rebirth of the Cool by Call Number: PN6727.M28 S73 2009ISBN: 9781401222628Publication Date: 2009-06-02
Accounting: a Very Short Introduction by Call Number: HF5636.N62 A23 2014ISBN: 9780199684311Publication Date: 2014-05-01
Psychotherapy: a Very Short Introduction by Call Number: RC480 .B87 2015ISBN: 9780199689361Publication Date: 2015-03-01
Philosophy of Science: Very Short Introduction by Call Number: Q175.O45 P45 2016ISBN: 9780198745587Publication Date: 2016-09-28
American Political History: a Very Short Introduction by Call Number: E183.A42 A44 2015ISBN: 9780199340057Publication Date: 2015-02-11
- A very short introduction seriesOdum owns physical and digital copies of many of the books in this well-known series, not just the ones listed above. Use this link to search our catalog for all of the ones that we have available.
Black Birds in the Sky by
A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today? These are the questions that award-winning author Brandy Colbert seeks to answer in this unflinching nonfiction account of the Tulsa Race Massacre. In examining the tension that was brought to a boil by many factors--white resentment of Black economic and political advancement, the resurgence of white supremacist groups, the tone and perspective of the media, and more--a portrait is drawn of an event singular in its devastation, but not in its kind. It is part of a legacy of white violence that can be traced from our country's earliest days through Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement in the mid-twentieth century, and the fight for justice and accountability Black Americans still face today. The Tulsa Race Massacre has long failed to fit into the story Americans like to tell themselves about the history of their country. This book, ambitious and intimate in turn, explores the ways in which the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the story of America--and by showing us who we are, points to a way forward. YALSA Honor Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780063056664Publication Date: 2021-10-05
The Black Period by
An acclaimed poet reclaims her origin story as the queer daughter of a Muslim Nigerian immigrant and a Black American visual artist in this groundbreaking memoir, combining lyrical prose, biting criticism, and haunting visuals. "Hafizah Augustus Geter is a genuine artist, not bound by genre or form. Her only loyalty is the harrowing beauty of the truth."--Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews "I say, 'the Black Period,' and mean 'home' in all its shapeshifting ways." In The Black Period, Hafizah creates a space for the beauty of Blackness, Islam, disability, and queerness to flourish, celebrating the many layers of her existence that America has time and again sought to erase. At nineteen, she lost her mother to a sudden stroke. Weeks later, her father became so heartsick that he needed a triple bypass. By her thirties, she was constantly in pain, pinballing between physical therapy appointments, her grief, and the grind that is the American Dream. Hafizah realized she'd spent years internalizing the narratives that white supremacy had fed her about herself. Suddenly, she says, I was standing at the cliff of my own life, remembering. Recalling her parents' lessons on the art of Black revision, and mixing history, political analysis, and cultural criticism, alongside stunning original artwork created by her father, renowned artist Tyrone Geter, Hafizah maps out her own narrative, weaving between a childhood populated with Southern and Nigerian relatives; her days in a small Catholic school; a loving but tragically short relationship with her mother; and the feelings of joy and community that the Black Lives Matter protests engendered in her as an adult. All throughout, she forms a new personal and collective history, addressing the systems of inequity that make life difficult for non-able-bodied persons, queer people, and communities of color while capturing a world brimming with potential, art, music, hope, and love. A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought, in The Black Period, Hafizah manages to sidestep shame, confront disability, embrace forgiveness, and emerge from the erasures America imposes to exist proudly and unabashedly as herself.
ISBN: 9780593448649Publication Date: 2022
African American Heritage Month
Seven Days in June by Call Number: PS3623.I566 S48 2021ISBN: 9781538719107Publication Date: 2021-06-01
Honey Girl by Call Number: POPULAR PS3618.O46554 H66 2021dISBN: 9781643589657Publication Date: 2021-07-01
Bet on It by Call Number: POPULAR PS3619.L3776 B48 2022ISBN: 9781250821829Publication Date: 2022-07-12
Every New Year by Call Number: POPULAR PS3610.A35265 A6 2019ISBN: 9781953908025Publication Date: 2019-12-31
The City We Became by Call Number: POPULAR PS3610.E46 C58 2020ISBN: 9780316509848Publication Date: 2020-03-24
The Prey of Gods by Call Number: PS3604.R394 P74 2017ISBN: 9780062493033Publication Date: 2017-06-13
The Water Dancer by Call Number: POPULAR PS3603.O17 W38 2019ISBN: 9780399590597Publication Date: 2019-09-24
The Origin of Others by Call Number: POPULAR PS374.R32 M67 2017ISBN: 9780674976450Publication Date: 2017-09-18
Sundown Towns by
Bestselling author ofLies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen, exposes the secret communities and hotbeds of racial injustice that sprung up throughout the twentieth century unnoticed, forcing us to reexamine race relations in the United States. In this groundbreaking work, bestselling sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, Loewen uncovers the thousands of "sundown towns"--almost exclusively white towns where it was an unspoken rule that blacks could not live there--that cropped up throughout the twentieth century, most of them located outside of the South. These towns used everything from legal formalities to violence to create homogenous Caucasian communities--and their existence has gone unexamined until now. For the first time, Loewen takes a long, hard look at the history, sociology, and continued existence of these towns, contributing an essential new chapter to the study of American race relations. Sundown Towns combines personal narrative, history, and analysis to create a readable picture of this previously unknown American institution all written with Loewen's trademark honesty and thoroughness.
Call Number: E185.615 .L577 2006ISBN: 9780743294485Publication Date: 2006
The Trayvon Generation by Call Number: POPULAR E185.86 .A37945 2022ISBN: 9781538737897Publication Date: 2022-04-05
Other Guides and Departments to Check Out
- Odum's Anti-Oppression LibguideThis guide provides resources to those who wish to learn about and combat oppression of various kinds in our society.
- Africana Studies ProgramValdosta State University's program for African American Studies.
Outside Resources
- Celebrating African American History MonthThis website is a home page for government resources relating to African American History month.
- The National Museum of African American History and CultureThe National Museum of African American History and Culture collects and exhibits relating to the history and culture of African Americans.
- Poets.org Celebrates Black History MonthThis website has collected poetry and archival documents from Black authors for Black History Month.
- Confronting Anti-Black Racism on PBS Learning MediaThis series of videos available on PBS learning media was compiled to help teach about racism and confront it in our society.
- Copeland African American Museum (CAAM)The Copeland African American Museum (CAAM) will enhance your understanding of the importance of diversity.
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